The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-08
PEW AND PULPIT.


States is ,, 732, $40.
preacher should wind up his discourse
when he breaks the thread Of it.
st. Andrews parish. Jacksonville, Fla.
is about to erect church as a memorial of
the late Bishop Young.
There are 500 places of religious worship
in New York, with 400, 600 church sittings,
representing twenty-eight denominations.
The Presbyterian college at Dodge City,
Kas., receives gift OF $50 600 from Hon.
A. T. Soule, millionaire resident OF
Rochester, n. Y.
The receipts of the American CoRgre-
gational Union for the year which closed
with April were $40, 597, gain of 40 per
cent. over the previous year.
Rev. John Alabaster, of Trinity Meth
odist Church, Chicago. formerly of Indi-
annapolis sailed for Europe recently, and
will be absent several months.
Trinity Church, Davenport, Iowa, is to
commemorate on the 18th of July the
semi-centennial of the first church service
held within the limits of that diocese.
It is stated that out If the q 600 inhab-
itants of the Samoan islands 1000 are
church members and 5000 are candidates
for membership. There are 200 native
pastors.
quirements held aloft by Plymouth's COM
mittee preached some years since in Jeru-
salem and was crucifed for his work
Denver News.
An old colored preacher, alter exhaust
ing himself on an attempt to describe
heaven, wound up thus: ~ tell you,
brethren, ii is very Kentucky of place"
Richmond Religious Herald.
In heaven there will be no avoiding the
negro. Washed in the blood of the lamb he
will be of the same color as the fastidious
churchmsn of South Carolina. He will
not smell in heaven. Appeal.
Rev. DR.. ]. NJ. Worrall, formerly pastor
OF the Eighth Presbyterian Church. Chi
College, at Danville, Ky. DR.. Worrall is
now pastor OF the Thirteenth Street Pres
by terrain Church, New York.
The First Church of Christ (Congrega-
tionall of Springfield, Mass began the
celebration of its 25Oth anniversary last
Sunday week. OF the eighty nine churches
established in the colonies during the sew
enteenth century this church was the six
tenth. The settlement Of the town ante
dates the establishment of the church by
single year.
The Raleigh News says that the lady or
dsined recently by Bishop Potter IN New
1OIk Is UGb LIE OulN OthCOueSS III the LDls-
copal Church in America. In Franklin
County, North Carolina, is a lady who was
ordained by Bishop Atkinson and Is now
known as Sister Cecilia, and has devoted
her life to good works in the church. She
| is not alone a member of a sisterhood, but
a regular ordained deaconess.
After looking broadly over the religious
| field the Christian Union concludes that
lin spite OF much apathy and some bitter
| definite and cordial relations between the
evangelical churches, which has hitherto
shown itself in local and sporadic NANTES
| tations, appears to be growing into the
| dimensions of a national movement, with
q deepening and broadening current"
There is a decided revolt in Holland
| against the rationalistic tendencies of the
state church. Six pastors and 1900 peo-
| pie recently withdrew from the old Dutch
| synod because that body would not dis
| cOuntenance ministers who deny the deity
| of Christ and the inspiration OF the scrip
| lures. The kirk session at Rotterdam is
| taking the same course, and the movement
| is spreading under the eloquent leadership
of Leen Cachet.
Snowy dressing among church-goers
comes in for a sharp rebuke by the Baptist
Weekly. 1t says: aside from the I'M
| seemly vanity it suggests, and which does
not accord with the spirit of worship, 1t not
only tends to detract the attention of 9TH
ers, but to excite feelings of envy and en-
ulation under circumstances the most
criminal and cruel. To greater or less
extent all gay and eXtravagant dressing is
| prompted by one or the other of these per
soDal considerations. To indulge such
feelings under any circumstances is a man.
ifest improperly, but to do so in connec-
ton with religious services is shockingly
sinful"
The Charleston News and Courier is
printing columns of letters and interviews
about the recent secession from the Protest
ant Episcopal Convention of South Caro-
lima. There can scarcely be doubt" re.
ports its interviewer, that the opinion
among the members of the Episcopal
Church is largely against the admission OF
the celored man into the convention, and
expressions are freely made of approval 81
the course of the seceders. As a general
thing the sentiment is tersely expressed in
this fashion: We don't want the niger
in the church, and we won't have him.
the seceders, many of whom are guarded
in the expression Of their views"
A minister in Massachusetts,, says the
Boston Traveller, was talking with his five
or six year-old daughter. He said: what
would you do il Jesus should come right
in here?'' She said: 1--WE would all take
hold of hands and march around him and
say Thank you, thank you, thank you'll u
The same ministers little boy of eight OF
ten, at the time of the canvass for Mr..
Lincoln as President, one evening, in the
sittiDg-room, formed his sister into COM
pany, and, with sticks bearing paper ban
ners, marched around the room. The
father told him that people always had a
speech on such occasions, and as the pro-
cession came around him, said: HALT!
Now for the speech" when the little
Captain said: "'0ur Father, who art in
heaven, haIlowed be thy name; thy king
dom come. Hurrah for Abraham Lin
coln."